Janet: Along the lines of answering a question you haven't asked (and will all sincerest hope, will never need to ask), one way that one might lose milk during pregnancy is subsequent to losing the pregnancy. My son Patrick was 2 3/4 yrs. when I got pregnant last winter and was still nursing 2-3 times a day. My milk started to reduce pretty dramatically at around maybe 8 weeks of pregnancy. Unfortunately, I found out at 16 weeks that I'd lost the baby. At that point, I worried that my milk might *come in* when I delivered the fetus, but because that process was substantially delayed--to make a long story short, at 32 weeks now I have not passed any tissue--it gave my milk production time to cease. I lost a couple bra cup sizes within a week, and although Patrick nurses 1-2 times a day still, there's nothing. (Actually, he likes to pretend there is milk and will tell me things like "it tastes like lemonade"). Most of my tandem nursing friends tell me they never quite lost all the milk during pregnancy, and my unclinical observation is that the younger the nursing toddler, the more milk seems to keep being produced. Usually production does drop somewhat and the toddlers nurse less frequently until the baby is born, then go to town on all that good milk. My friend's son who was 2 1/2 when his sister was born had breastmilk bms for about a month! Good luck and good health to you and your little ones, Penny Piercy, LLLL, MOM (Patrick 4/6/93), and a few other acronyms from Bloomington, IN *** <[log in to unmask]>